What! Public Funds for Private Clinics?

Well folks this one is a head scratcher of a revalation but bare with me a little while so I can tell about the waste that goes on in Liberal and Conservative Federal Governments. I know that's not a surprising statement but it's the truth. I hope whoever reads this is sitting down while I reveal this disgusting waste of taxpayer money. It ties in with the future of our health system and the ability to sustain it through the tough times to come when our system gets overflowed with seniors from the babyboomer generation.

The truth is public funds do go into private clinics, yup your hard earned tax dollars go into giving free healthcare to rich people. That's what it really boils down to. The Government says there is no two tier healthcare yet your money goes into rich people basically getting free healthcare. Money that could be going into our public hospitals creating more spaces, doctors and nurses is being spent at big fancy clinics where the vast majority if not all of its patients are well off or just stinkin rich.

Now I am the first to speak out against two tier healthcare, we've seen the consequences all too often in the Unites States but if this is fact in our private clinics then I would support a system where rich people pay their own way, and not take money meant for the public hospitals. You could see a system where private companies fund these clinics, such as Microsoft or McDonalds or any other big company but not our tax dollars that are meant to go into the public system. The big bad word in the 2000 election was that Canada was becoming a two tier system, well my friends it's about time we do that two tier thang.

In 2004 Jack Layton first run at being Prime Minister, he brought this issue up and was quickly attacked by all sides for using the Shouldice clinic, a perfectly fine co-op facility that used both private donations and public monies. Jack paid his own way and got the hernia treatment he needed. The fact that Jack had just taken over a party that at that point wasn't even an official party in the Canadian Parliament and was being attacked about his private life at a point when he was bringing up this shocking statistic. Well that tells me that the two establishment parties want to keep the status quo and that's just not good enough.

I am writing this in conjunction with S&F magazine a Young New Democrat publication and I hope the readers of the magazine and yourselves who are reading this on my blog contact their members of Parliament and demand an end to this outrageous practice. Just the thought of this happening at a time when an elderly lady just passed away because she couldn't be attended to and died on a stretcher in the hallway of a public hospital near the exit makes me want to break the head of whoever is responsible. Yet on the otherhand people like that poor lady and others who have died in similar circumstances deserve justice by putting an end to this horrible act of inequality.

At a time when the vast majority of our babyboomers are going to be dependant on our public healthcare system, our doctors and our nurses can we really afford to keep funding private clinics with public money? I think not! So create facebook groups, join them write in your local or school newspaper and even get on the streets because this issue will become more of a glaring problem the more we ignore it and the country will not look all that different from that of Greece, on the verge of bankruptcy and at the mercy of other nations. I don't want to see that happen to my country and neither do you. So get involved and make a difference.

Thank you for reading. Take care and good luck. Blog posting and S&F article by Marco Zottas